This countdown identifies the weekend's best bets for catches, total yards, touchdowns and receiving targets—a stat that must always factor into lineup strategies with receivers, tight ends and running backs.

When it comes to crafting a weekly listing of elite wide receivers, simply follow the trail of quarterbacks primed for Week 10 glory...or wideouts with track records of success against middling pass defenses.

1. Perhaps I should revisit Andrew Luck's middling ranking for the week. In Reggie Wayne's last four trips to Jacksonville, he boasts an average of 10.5 catches, 129 yards and 0.5 touchdowns. Of equal importance, he caught 38 of the 42 targeted balls in that span.

2. It's easier to spin Marques Colston's recent mini-slump from this angle: Of his last five games, Colston has crossed the PPR-elite threshold of seven catches, 95 yards and/or one touchdown four times. And the one "clunker" of the bunch entailed 10 Colston targets.

3. Dwayne Bowe (45 catches, 571 yards, three TDs) is amazingly on pace for 90 catches and 1,000 yards, despite being hindered by the two-headed monster of quarterbacks Matt Cassel and Brady Quinn. And last year, with Tyler Palko as his QB (cue deep sigh), Bowe caught seven balls for 69 yards against the Steelers (the Chiefs' Week 10 foe).

4. It certainly wasn't my intention to have a "Davone" (Bess), "Devin" (Aromashodu) or "Danario" (Alexander) run back-to-back-to-back at the bottom of the list.

5. At first blush, DeSean Jackson (37 catches, 624 yards, two TDs) has fostered a sluggish start to the season. But there are reasons for optimism here:

a. D-Jax has collected seven-plus targets in all eight games.

b. Dating back to last year, Jackson has averaged 10-plus yards per catch in 12 straight games.

c. In his last three games against the Cowboys, Jackson boasts averages of four catches, 110 yards and 0.33 touchdowns.